SSD for Dell Inspiron 5577

Question

Hi, so I have a question. My dell inspiron 5577 came with a 1tb HDD but I want to remove it and replace it with an SSD and also put one SSD on the m.2 nvme, so basically i'd like to have 2 SSD's on my laptop, one por my OS and another one for my games but i'm not sure if it will support them, my idea was to put one nvme of 128 gb and one ssd sata of 512 gb.

Please if anyone reads this let me know if I can do these upgrades the way I want and if not what can I do?

fireberd · Answer

I have a 5577. It came with an M.2 2280 SSD, 256GB. I replaced it with a 512 but as the OEM was a SATA type, not NVME, I upgraded to a 512GB Samsung EVO SATA type. I use mine for my recording studio and installed a standard 512GB SSD in the slot for an SSD or laptop size hard drive. I dual boot, the M.2 install for regular PC operations and the other for recording studio operations. I see no problem with what you want to do.

ejn63 · Answer

The system supports 1 M.2 2280 NVMe + one 2.5" drive.

That said, 128G is too small to serve as long-term use for the boot drive. You'll want at least 256G for the boot drive -- and a 512G drive in NVMe may be a better buy given the price/capacity ratio.

U2CAMEB4ME · Answer

Welcome to the Dell Community @Angel93

As said a 256GB would be sufficient but 512GB Nvme drive would be better.

Install the Nvme drive:

1. Clone the OS to the new drive?

OR

2. Install fresh copy of OS on new drive?

Then use the new drive for the OS and Apps.

Next would be to have the 1TB drive setup as the "Default Storage"

This way your boot and apps will run from the faster Nvme drive.

Best regards,

U2

fireberd · Answer

I don't think SATA or NVME will make much difference.  My 5577 with the M.2 SATA SSD boots and runs programs, visually, as fast as my desktop with an SSD and i7 8700K.

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